Friday, March 11, 2011

10.6: An AppleScript to compress a Finder selection

Snow Leopard only hintI use my faithful Butler to run Finder's usual operations, like copying, moving, and deleting files, making both my mouse and trackpad completely useless devices. As a keyboard-only user, I also wanted to add some other Finder operations, such as file compression.

Here is a small AppleScript, to be run from Butler (or any other script-launcher utility), that will compress the current Finder selection into a .zip archive, with the same name and within the same location. You can launch this script from Butler, triggering it with an abbreviation or a keyboard hotkey.

My script is based on this hint and turns it into a Finder-selection script.

I didn't test any compression levels, as my only point was to be able to co ...

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